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07.18
2013
Ernest Hardy reviews Twenty Feet from Stardom...
...in the Village Voice. "Directed by Morgan Neville in fan-boy mode (that's high praise), Twenty Feet from Stardom is an exquisitely rendered look at the dialectics of celebrity and artistry, luck and hard work, its conversati...
04.17
2013
Ernest Hardy reviews the new Portrait of Jason
The new release of Shirley Clarke's documentary Portrait of Jason gets a beautiful review by film critic and RedBone Press author Ernest Hardy here.
04.17
2013
Ernest Hardy reviews Free Angela
Film critic and RedBone Press author Ernest Hardy reviews the new documentary, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, for the Village Voice. See here.
04.07
2013
Black Lavender Experience 2013
Sharon Bridgforth is the featured artist at Brown University's Black Lavender Experience 2013, April 4-6, 2013!
04.07
2013
Ernest Hardy talks with Ava DuVernay
Ernest Hardy interviews filmmaker Ava DuVernay for the Village Voice on the future of black film here.
04.07
2013
Ernest Hardy on Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello talks Nina Simone with Ernest Hardy for the Philadelphia Weekly here.
10.08
2012
Ernest Hardy at UC Riverside Oct. 11
Join RedBone Press author Ernest Hardy at University of California-Riverside for "Radiant Children: From Basquiat to '80s-'90s Hip-Hop; Reconsidering the Queerness in the Mix," a talk about music, intimacy, race and sexuality, to be held 12-1:30 p...
10.08
2012
Join Marvin and Ana in the Dominican Republic!
Register now for Karibe: Writing and Performance Workshop to be held in the Dominican Republic Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2013. See here for more details. Congratulations to RedBone authors Marvin K. White and Ana Lara!
10.08
2012
Strange Fruit in Kentucky
RedBone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore was a guest recently on "Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop Culture and Black Gay Life," a new radio show on WFPL-FM, 89.3 in Louisville, KY. Listen here for the Sept. 29, 2012 podcast, hosted by Dr. Kail...
10.08
2012
Coming out stories!
On the radio tonight, 7-8 p.m. EST Oct. 8, 2012, on "Inside Out," a WPFW-FM radio show (Washington, DC) hosted and produced by Sheila Alexander-Reid. The theme: Coming out stories and resources as a continuation of empowering the LGBTQ community. ...
10.03
2012
Marvin K. White does Dallas.Southern.Pride.
Join RedBone Press author Marvin K. White at Fahari Institute's Black Pride edition of Queerly Speaking, its monthly literary event, 8 p.m. Friday, October 5, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1015 Elm St., downtown Dallas, TX. Part of Dallas S...
05.19
2012
RedBone Press in Publishers Weekly
Thank you to Publishers Weekly for the nice write-up here. Very nice!
05.02
2012
Video from the National Black Writers Conference 2012
In case you didn't make it to NBWC 2012 in Brooklyn March 30-April 1, 2012, here's video from C-Span/Book TV from the panel on black book publishing (panelists include Lisa C. Moore, RedBone Press). It's an hour and a half; make some tea and settl...
04.13
2012
Marvin K. White at Resistencia in Austin, TX!
allgo and RedBone Press present! Join us at Resistencia Books on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate the great poet Marvin K. White! Marvin, a 2012 artist-in-residence at allgo, will read from his newest books, Our Name Be Witness and...
04.11
2012
Sharon Bridgforth reading at University of Kentucky!
Sharon Bridgforth will read from love conjure/blues as part of a lecture on gender, sexuality and identity, 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 16, 2012 at the Niles Gallery, University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. Free and open to the public.&n...
04.11
2012
Ana-Maurine Lara at Transnational Hispaniola II!
RedBone Press author Ana-Maurine Lara (Erzulie's Skirt) joins fellow scholar Myriam Chancy to discuss literature and transborder and binational relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The event happens this Friday morning, April 1...
03.29
2012
April 4-8 / Sharon Bridgforth / Black Lavender at Brown U
RedBone Press author Sharon Bridgforth is part and parcel of the Black Lavender Experience 2012, April 4-8, 2012 at Brown University. More info (who/what/where/when/why) here.
03.21
2012
Marvin K. White reads new work at Yale!
Yale University's Dept. of African-American Studies and the LGBT Studies Program present "A Conversation: Craft, Politics & Memory / Toward a Black Gay Ethnopoetics" with Marvin K. White this Friday, March 23, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. Marvin wi...
03.14
2012
Ernest Hardy and Mark Bradford in the Bay Area, March 31, 2012
Ernest Hardy goes deep—again! Visual artist Mark Bradford, in conversation with writers Ernest Hardy (Blood Beats: Vol. 1 and 2, RedBone Press) and Sue
Bell Yank, will discuss the conceptual framework behind Bradford's piece from the U.S. biennia...
03.14
2012
National Black Writers Conference panel: Lisa C. Moore
RedBone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore joins a panel moderated by Calvin Reid, about "Being Sold or Selling Ourselves: Black Writers and the Marketplace," 3:30 – 5
p.m. Sunday, April 1, 2012 at National Black Writers Conference, Medgar Evers
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